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Conference Equipment include:

• Audio-Video
• Data Projector
• Multi-system DVD Player
• CD Player
• 29 Multi-system Television
• Multi-system VCR
• Overhead Projector
• Slide Projector
• Projector Screen
• Table Microphone
• Cordless Microphone
• Standing Microphone
• Rostrum Microphone
• Clip Microphone

Other meeting aids include:

• Laser Pointer
• White Board
• Flip Chart
• Portable Stage
• Pen/ Pencil
• Notepad
• Portable Screen
• Ropes and Posts

Video Conferencing
The Hotel does not have its own video conferencing facilities, however, video conferencing can be arranged through an external company.

Culinary perfection reigns at each of the five restaurants.

The new concept Italian restaurant Spaghettini serves up exceptional Italian cuisine while the Pantai Restaurant set by the beach and poolside offers a wide selection of seafood delights. The Li Gong Chinese Restaurant features exquisite Chinese dishes and the Atrium Cafe is a popular outlet with its well-reputed daily buffet lines. Over at the Country Club, the Spike Lounge is the perfect place to dine or relax after a rigorous exercise session or golf. Guests can also savour culinary creations on their own private balcony through 24-hour room service.

Atrium Cafe: Set in the Atrium of the hotel with spectacular views of the ocean, amidst grandiose marble columns. Daily theme buffets are served and a selection of international and local fare is featured in the menu.

Special Highlights:

Seafood Nights
Featured every Tuesday from 18:30 to 22:30 and offering the best selection of seafood including King Prawns, Crab, Freshly Shucked Oysters, Mussels, Fresh Sashimi and Sushi, Salmon and more. Desserts are temptingly delicious.

Sunday Brunch
Featured every Sunday from 11:30 to 15:00, enjoy a family brunch which includes a Sunday roast, a wide array of main courses, Freshly Shucked Oysters, a range of salads, Sushi and Sashimi, desserts and more.

Lobby Lounge: The perfect place to unwind with a selection of refreshments throughout the day and traditional English High Tea in the afternoons. Take-away cakes and bread may also be ordered through the Lobby Lounge.

Li Cong Chinese Restaurant: Set in a separate pavilion, the Li Gong serves up the best of Cantonese and regional Chinese cuisine.

Location: Located opposite The Empire Cinema
Operating Hours: Breakfast 07:30 to 10:00 (Sundays)
Lunch 11:00 to 15:00 (Fridays and Saturdays)
Dinner 18:30 to 22:30 (Tuesdays to Sundays)
Brunch 11:30 to 15:00 (Sundays)
Capacity: 160 Seats

All You Can Eat: Available every Wednesday for dinner, select and sample exquisite Chinese dishes from a menu of 65 items to your heart's content.

All You Can Eat Steamboat: Available every Thursday evening featuring 3 choices of broth (Chicken, Tom Yam and Gangsom), wide selection of vegetables, meat and seafood buffet style for individual selection, salad counter featuring fresh salads and complimentary fruit platter. Side orders are also available for those who would like to savour cooked dishes together with their steamboat.

Provinces of China: Set menus available for tables of 2 to 10. Available for dinner every Friday and Saturday.

Sunday Brunch: Chinese brunch featuring the finest in Chinese cuisine including a variety of dim sum delights, available every Sunday from 10:30 to 14:30.

Location: Located by the main swimming pool off the beach.

Operating Hours:

Lunch 11:30 to 15:00 (Tuesdays to Sundays)
Dinner 18:30 to 22:30 (Tuesdays to Saturdays)
Capacity: 184 Seats

With the option to dine indoors or al fresco in an exotic setting by the sea, feast on the finest selection of seafood to be cooked up any way you like by the chefs.

Highlights

Seafood BBQ Buffet
Available every Friday and Saturday evening featuring the freshest seafood- Fish, Prawns, Crabs, Oysters, Mussels and more.

Spaghettini: An Italian Tratorria with a new concept trendy atmosphere. You may choose to sit casually by the bar and indulge in the singing chefs or be seated at the tables to enjoy authentic Italian cuisine. An exquisite private room with stunning decor is available for special occasions.

Location: Level 6
Operating Hours: Lunch 12:00 to 14:30 (Mondays and Wednesdays)
Dinner 18:30 to 23:00 (Daily)
Brunch 11:30 to 15:00 (Sundays)
Capacity: 100 Seats

Spike Lounge: Located at the Country Club, overlooking the 18th Hole with outdoor and indoor seating. Serves delicious snacks and light meals.

Location: Country Club
Operating Hours: 07:30 to 10:00 (Daily)
Capacity: 100 Seats

Room Service

Room service is available 24-hours for the convenience of guests and features an extensive menu of starters, soups, pasta, sandwiches, local and western favorites and desserts. Children's menus are also available with fun food such as chicken nuggets, spaghetti, pizza, hot dogs, fish and chips and more.

With the divine climate where nights are generally cool with subtle breezes, a candlelight dinner under the stars can be enjoyed in the privacy of your room on the balcony.

Alcohol

Brunei is a dry country, but non-Muslim visitors over 17 years are allowed alcohol for their own consumption. Brunei has the highest duty free allowance of any country in the world.

Regulations permit two litres of alcohol (spirit or wine) and 12 cans of beer to be imported up to twice a day. This can either be brought into the country upon arrival or purchased at any border. The nearest border is 20 minutes from the hotel by car, a visit to which is an event in itself and not to be missed. A cosmopolitan atmosphere prevails, with Malay and Chinese food on offer to tables of chatting visitors and locals as they wait for their duty free orders to be prepared. Fun and festive!

Almost any brand of beer and spirits is available. The wines, including sparkling varieties are very good, and come mostly from Australian and Italian vineyards.

French Champagne and expensive French wines are not easily obtained at the borders and are therefore the brands worth bringing from Europe, if so desired.

Guests wine may be served to them at the hotel restaurants (except the Lobby Lounge and Atrium Cafe and at the Country Club and despite being a 5 star deluxe hotel, The Empire does not charge corkage.

For those who enjoy a drink, this provides for a very reasonably priced holiday; here the bar bill will definitely not exceed the cost of accommodation, as so often can be the case.

Alcohol purchases for groups may be organised in advance of arrival.

Halal
Respecting the Muslim religion and culture, all food used at The Empire Hotel and Country Club is halal. Halal is an Arabic word meaning lawful and permitted and Muslims around the world only consume food made from halal ingredients.

Foods which are not halal include pork and its by-products, animals not slaughtered according to the Halal procedures, alcohol and intoxicants, carnivorous animals, birds of prey and land animals without external ears, blood and blood by-products.

Using halal food and products does not affect the quality of taste or flavor of individual dishes.

The Empire Hotel & Country Club consists of 423 rooms, suites, and villas in three separate buildings.

The Deluxe rooms are located in the Main Atrium Building. The Superior Rooms are located in the Lagoon and Waterfall Buildings of the Hotel.

Deluxe E-Club rooms are located on the E-Club floors where guests can enjoy full E-Club facilities which include an E-Club Lounge where private breakfast, afternoon tea and cocktail are served, 2 hours complimentary internet connection at private business centre at E-Club, complimentary pressing of 2 garments, complimentary shoe polish service and 24-hours butler service.

Villas

Choose from one of 16 stunning villas for the perfect family holiday or for a more private getaway. Set in beautiful gardens, each villa is unique with beautiful decor and full features including personal butler service, will ensure that all needs are met.

The 3-bedroom villas share a swimming pool area and a private beach for convenience of guests, while the Royal Villa has its own pool and outdoor area.

Each villas individual decor, is themed towards the natural flora and fauna of Brunei's rainforest. Marvel at the beautiful details incorporated into the interiors of the villas, from the bathrooms to the bedrooms.

The villas are located away from the main building of the hotel and buggies are made available upon request for the convenience of guests to get around the huge property.

Suites

The Hotel has 7 suite categories in total comprising of the Junior, Executive, Ambassador, Regal, Presidential, Empress and Emperor suites. All the suites are beautifully furnished offering guests the perfect place to unwind and relax in.

All suite bookings enjoy full E-Club benefits. Often described as the best suite ever seen with a private indoor pool and pool area, The Emperors Suite located on the 7th Floor of the West Atrium wing, is a must-try for those who would like to indulge. With gold threads woven through the beautiful carpets, Lapizlazuli faucets, crystal chandeliers and the splendour of the rooms within the room, this luxurious opulent suite definitely lives up to its name. To pamper guests further, Bvlgari amenities are featured in the Ambassador, Regal, Empress and Emperor suite.

All Rooms Feature:

• Radio
• Data port
• Mini-bar
• Jacuzzi (suites)
• Bathroom amenities
• Bedside control panel
• In-room safe and hairdryer
• Coffee/tea making facilities
• Multi-channel colour television
• Two-line international direct dial telephone and voice mail
• Private balcony providing a panoramic view of the ocean, lagoon or golf course.
• Spacious marble-clad ensuite bathtub and walk-in shower with spectacular views

Recreational Facilities

A large number of recreational facilities are available at the Empire Hotel & Country Club for Hotel guests and Country Club members:

• Sailing
• Jet-skiing
• Windsurfing
• Snorkelling
• 4 tennis courts
• 2 squash courts
• Aerobic classes
• Ocean kayaking
• 8 ten-pin powling lanes
• Pool & snooker rooms
• Ping-pong / table tennis
• 2 indoor badminton courts
• Golf driving and putting range
• Golf lessons from golf professionals
• 9 pools with a total of more than 16.000 sq.m.
• 18- hole Jack Nicklaus designed championship golf course
• Gymnasium fitted with state-of-the-art fitness training and exercise equipment
• Cinema at the empire cinema which shows the latest movies from Hollywood and the region.

Swimming Pools

With more than 16.000 square meter of pools, and 9 different pools, country club members and hotel guests have plenty of possibilities to choose from, when it comes to swimming.

Among some of the pools to be enjoyed are:

• Relax in the Jacuzzi by the freeform pool while enjoying a tropical drink.
• The pool in the kids club has a water slide and many toys and games for your children to enjoy.
• An elegantly designed 17m indoor lap pool can be found at the Country Club, for leisure swimming and exercise.
• A huge salt water pool surrounded by palm trees and beaches where you can enjoy swimming and sunbathing.
• A beautiful 50 m freeform Swimming pool with a stunning view over the sea lets you swim and marvel as you watch the sun set over the South China sea.

Diving

The sea around Borneo is home to some of the best diving spots in the world.

The fresh colorful and untouched underwater world of the Brunei sea is no exception and impresses everyone who visits it. A scattering of jewels in the ocean, that sparkles only to divers. Mysterious old sailing shipwrecks, World War II warships, new commercial ships, many old established coral reefs, some isolated rock pinnacles and lovely lonely Louisa reef. Marvel at the colorful corals, sea fans, soft corals, bright striped coral fish and clouds of flashing silver oceanic fish.

The Brunei Sub Aqua Diving Club, which is a non-profit organisation with more than 100 members, can help you with more information.

Diving courses are available through the British Sub Aqua Club.

Horse Riding

Riding lessons are available at Trijaya Equestrian Park in Jerudong, 5 minutes away from The Empire Hotel and Country Club. The Park caters for all levels and ages from five years onwards and has beautiful stables with horses and ponies.

Kind's Only

Younger guests are not forgotten with a Kids Club catering to children aged from 4 to 12 years. An enclosed safe area with a children's pool, water slide and activity room provides endless fun with daily activities such as sandcastles, beachcombing, games, cartoons, arts and crafts and more.

The Empire Country Club is located on the grounds of the luxurious beachfront resort, The Empire Hotel & Country Club. Sporting and recreational facilities reign supreme with a floodlit 18-hole Jack Nicklaus-designed championship golf course, putting and chipping green, 26-bay covered driving range, 2 air-conditioned badminton courts, 4 tennis courts, 2 air-conditioned squash courts, 1 air-conditioned multi-purpose hall, 8 ten-pin bowling lanes, state-of-the-art gymnasium, pool and snooker room, 17m indoor lap pool and spa.

Other Club House Facilities

• Male & Female Golf and Sports Locker Rooms (Inclusive of shower facilities, spa, sauna, steam room and plunge pool)
• Function and Meeting Room
• Marine Centre
• Media Room
• Massage and Treatment Rooms
• Members Grill and Lounge
• Surau

Spike Lounge
The Spike Lounge offers a comfortable setting for snacks and meals. Indoor and outdoor seating is available with views of the golf course.
Operating Hours : 06:00 to 10:00

The Spa

Located at the Ground Level of The Empire Country Club, the Spa is based on a new and unique East Meets West Fusion spa concept, bringing together the most ancient healing therapies and treatments, at the same time combining modern and relaxing facials.

Operating Hours: 9:00 to 21:00 (Daily)

Aerobics

Various types of aerobics lessons are available.

The Core
This class is designed to improve postures and increase flexibility whilst strengthening the back and flattening the abdomen.
The perfect way to complete your training.

High & Low Aerobic
Aerobic class designed to increase cardiovascular fitness. Class consists of warm-up followed by a low/high impact section of combinations, upper body isolations, floor exercises and cool down.

Body Shape
For all around exercising this class incorporates the use of added resistance like dynabands, lightweight dumbbells or towels for
Conditioning exercises after the aerobics segments.

Step Aerobic Mix
Aerobic conditioning obtained from stepping up and down adjustable platform. Varying degrees of intensity in workout.

Low Impact
The class emphasizes cardiovascular and flexibility training, with less stress to the joints and ligaments.

Badminton
The soft cushioned wooden flooring makes these 2 badminton courts fully professional with air conditioning making the game even more enjoyable.

Tennis
A total of 4 courts are available with courts 1, 2 and 3 being an artificial playing surface and the Centre Court a fast hard court surface. Viewing areas for friends and lights for night tennis have also been incorporated.

Gymnasium
A state-of-the-art gymnasium with modern equipment for a full work out is available. Enjoy the spectacular view of the golf and the South China sea, while working out.

Squash Courts
The 3 international standard squash courts are complete with a viewing area above.